What are you listening to 2016?

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Is that the double Chilliwack with the weird echo chamber stuff? I love that record.

On this timescale, all matter is liquid. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 19 June 2016 02:40 (eight years ago) link

no, the double album is their second album. this is their first. which is also very cool.

think you would like the AFT album a bunch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKUaYPhUjG8

scott seward, Sunday, 19 June 2016 02:58 (eight years ago) link

think you would like the AFT album a bunch:

Dude you are absolutely right!! Man that intro is amazing.

On this timescale, all matter is liquid. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 19 June 2016 08:09 (eight years ago) link

Chaino - Jungle Echoes
The Persuaders - Surfer's Nightmare
Diane Richards - In the Name of Love
Brandy Clark - Big Day in a Small Town
Shirley Nanette - Never Coming Back
Cross Creek - Up the Creek

JacobSanders, Sunday, 19 June 2016 14:50 (eight years ago) link

Jandek

Trad Gras Och Stenar box set

Sand albums on Rotorelief

Harmonia - Documents 1975

Morricone soundtracks, god help me

sleeve, Sunday, 19 June 2016 14:54 (eight years ago) link

Info on that Peter Maxwell Davies, please! Esp. listening experience.

dow, Sunday, 19 June 2016 16:19 (eight years ago) link

so happy to get that midnight sun record. such a nice copy too. this is the showstopper to end all showstoppers. guitars for days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMdN17DhzSA

scott seward, Sunday, 19 June 2016 18:00 (eight years ago) link

that transition around the 8 minute mark from lightning shred prog into heavy boogie riff kills me to death. and then i am reborn and then i die again.

scott seward, Sunday, 19 June 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link

yeah, just start it at 8:00 and listen from there. yeeesh.

i don't know who i'm talking to.

gottpunch, i guess, if he's around.

scott seward, Sunday, 19 June 2016 18:08 (eight years ago) link

wwwwwwowwwww, splendid, thank you skot! Great testimonial, too. Though personally, I wouldn't want to *just* start it around the 8 minute mark (although that does kill!), cos it had even non-prog me from the beginning. Sunny Sunday fluid dynamics-->heavy boogie seems like a classic Groundhogs move, though come to think of it not sure they ever did it this well. Guy in YouTube Comments proclaims them as Scands (says they're Danish) compatible, I'd say, w Trad, Gras, Stenar at their best or best intended, and other musical ancestors of Dungen, for isnt. Same commentator recs Ache who also are Danish and Popul Vuh(Not The German Band)/Popol Ace who are Norwegian Anybody know those? Thanks again!

dow, Sunday, 19 June 2016 19:02 (eight years ago) link

That Midnight Sun track is a jam, kinda similar to Focus. Is the rest of it that upbeat?

earlnash, Sunday, 19 June 2016 19:05 (eight years ago) link

Pita - Get in
Autechre - elseqs
Eva-Marie Houben - aus den fliegenden blattern eines fahrenden waldhorniste
http://shelter-press.org/sp068-kassel-jaeger-stephan-mathieu-akira-rabelais-zauberberg/
Joda Clement - Sea Songs

braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Sunday, 19 June 2016 19:47 (eight years ago) link

Fun fact: the piano player in Midnight Sun played on one of the first Albert Ayler albums, My Name Is Albert Ayler.

(Midnight Sun were originally called Rainbow Band and they put out an album a year before the Midnight Sun album with an earlier version of "Living On The Hill" which is on Youtube. They basically re-recorded the Rainbow Band album for the Midnight Sun album. Which doesn't happen every day. Both albums are great. If you need more...)

scott seward, Sunday, 19 June 2016 23:18 (eight years ago) link

Info on that Peter Maxwell Davies, please! Esp. listening experience.

to be honest, most of the listening experience for me consists of "ïs it over yet?" it's long... very, very long. a few moments where things seem to be working up to a dramatic point, but mostly listen to this as background sound. though to be fair it is a score for an *avant-garde* ballet, so the visual component is entirely lacking. still trying to find a way into his later works.

as far as his other (earlier) compositions, would recommend eight songs for a mad king in the julius eastman recording (doesn't seem to be on youtube!) also really like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFQ35dZbstc

no lime tangier, Monday, 20 June 2016 13:32 (eight years ago) link

Thanks! Yeah,eight songs... is the title I've seen most frequently, will check.
Scott, of course more Midnight Sun Rainbow Band (needs to be here and now)!

dow, Monday, 20 June 2016 21:24 (eight years ago) link

btw an earlier production put on by that ballet company was soundtracked by savage rose!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew35N8B0Pv8

no lime tangier, Monday, 20 June 2016 22:15 (eight years ago) link

I've got that LP! Forgot which ballet company it was associated with, and hadn't thought to look on the 'Tube, even though I need a new turntable (one that I can play through headphones, later for speakers---suggestions welcome)

dow, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 00:50 (eight years ago) link

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Austin, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 03:31 (eight years ago) link

OH and at the record show someone had boxes of beautiful unplayed CDs (a lot of promo copies) for 50 cents each and i got good stuff for the store - more current rap and some 4AD stuff and indie rock - but i'm keeping these and listening to them this week. lots of out of print rap goodness:

saafir - boxcar sessions - qwest - 1994

m.c. shan - play it again, shan - cold chillin' - 1990

the beatnuts - classic nuts vol. 1 - loud - 2002

everlast - forever everlasting - wb - 1990 ("i got the knack" one of my fave videos of all time for the part with divine styler and scheme team slam dancing.)

the beatnuts - stone crazy - relativity - 1997

dana dane - rollin' wit dana dane - maverick - 1995

the genius - words from the genius - cold chillin' - 1991

grand daddy i.u. - smooth assassin - cold chillin' - 1990

diamond shell - the grand imperial diamond shell - cold chillin' - 1991 (i actually brought my vinyl copy of this to the show to sell and i thought to myself - well, i can probably find it on CD someday...!!!)

nubian m.o.b. - s/t - cold chillin' - 1992

big daddy kane - looks like a job for... - cold chillin' - 1993

da bush babees - ambushed - reprise - 1994

lord finesse - return of the funky man - giant - 1992

scott seward, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:54 (eight years ago) link

That's a pair of trousers.

Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Thursday, 23 June 2016 16:31 (eight years ago) link

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vatican shadow - death is unity with god

brimstead, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 00:48 (eight years ago) link

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no lime tangier, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 00:53 (eight years ago) link

it's quite majestic the way "al quaeda (branch davidian)" develops from an extremely slow lurch with barely recognizable rhythm to a distorted downtempo nubeat/bodymusic kind of thing. like reverse disintegration loops but with beats: starts out sounding like dying cassette tape, ends with recognizable electronic dance form.

brimstead, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 01:13 (eight years ago) link

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which is pretty fantastic. Sounds about 10 years earlier than its 1975 release. But with added African tinge. But really this flits between things that sound like mid 60s garage pop and bubblegum but with beefier guitar. I think I love this lp. Now Again have a decent sounding remaster of it out.

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Have wanted a copy of this since I got the Nu Yorica compi on Souljazz back in the mid to late 90s. I found out recently that there is a cheap Japanese reissue cd of it around so grabbed a copy of that.
Great funky lp. Has Eddie Palmieri on keyboards though not sure how much that stands out.

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This has some great stuff on it, mainly noticing the Affectionate Punch and 4th Drawer Down stuff I think. But have mainly been listening to the first disc.
Actually some of the 2nd sounds a bit mushy but still great stuff. first disc does sound great so I think I may still need to pick up the lp reissues. I have the previous ones but that is from 15 years ago so probably do need to upgrade.

Stevolende, Thursday, 30 June 2016 10:39 (eight years ago) link

The Invisible.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 June 2016 13:51 (eight years ago) link

basically loads of Yuseef Lateef at the moment

calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2016 14:52 (eight years ago) link

or even Yusef

calzino, Thursday, 30 June 2016 14:52 (eight years ago) link

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extended stone roses jams vs early era verve

found it for a coin many years ago, listened to it a couple of times, and then forgot about it.

whereas today it sounds rather lovely.

mark e, Thursday, 30 June 2016 19:39 (eight years ago) link

The Invisible.

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 June 2016 13:51 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the new album is very good isn't it

boxedjoy, Thursday, 30 June 2016 20:44 (eight years ago) link

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THough I think the soundfiles I'm listening to may have reversed teh titles on a couple of tracks. i was listening to a 17 minute Dreaming Girls and wondering why it was being roundly dismissed by a number of people.

Stevolende, Friday, 1 July 2016 11:21 (eight years ago) link

Might just be that I like the track and others don't and I'm reading duration wrong cos I have a headfull of flu

Stevolende, Friday, 1 July 2016 11:30 (eight years ago) link

@ boxedjoy - yes it is, and I finally bought Rispah too, which is also excellent, albeit pretty different. I'd quite liked the first album but not gone any further for some reason. They've developed into something really quite special.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 1 July 2016 13:11 (eight years ago) link

Buzzcocks, Motorhead, Husker Du and late 80s grunge. I got a thumb drive with some live albums by Iron Maiden, BB King, Grand Funk and Pink Floyd going too in the truck.

earlnash, Friday, 1 July 2016 21:27 (eight years ago) link

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which is great. I thought it was going to be more electric but it is great jazzy stuff anyway. Him with a small combo in 1968 playing a lot of the material from the first couple of lps plus a solo keyboard elegy to lenny Bruce.
Looks like this is OOP . I just went through a load of external hard drives i no longer have connected and shifetd a load of stuff onto one of the drives I am currently using so have access to this again after not hearing it in years

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I left this in a pile for too long unplayed and the hard drive i'd copied it to has crashed.
But wow, visceral stuff.
Not sure if this has been at all influential but would hope it has been. has anybody directly cited it?

Stevolende, Sunday, 3 July 2016 12:44 (eight years ago) link

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no lime tangier, Monday, 4 July 2016 01:26 (eight years ago) link

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Austin, Monday, 4 July 2016 06:04 (eight years ago) link

van the man - it's too late... vol 2

brimstead, Monday, 4 July 2016 20:51 (eight years ago) link

Made two tapes to play at the Sunburned/Dredd Foole/Tom Carter show last week. Listened to them a bunch before the show. Told Tom Carter the next day that he could have them since he came in the store looking for tapes to play in the car. I actually missed seeing Tom play though. Which was a bummer. He came too late for me. Had to get home. One Maxell 90 minute tape and one TDK 110 minute tape. Just stuff from records I had been listening to a lot lately. Thus, their inclusion here on this thread:

Tape One

Larry Coryell - Cleo's Mood (best cheap Coryell album. probably five bucks online.)

Jacques Michel - Horesco Referens (great record. epic french chanson-style vocals mixed with 60's rock and fx.)

Treeborn - Skybound Train (sold this record today in the store to an online friend who stopped by. private press 70's jazz rock with west coast rock vocals.)

Alan Bown - Make Up Your Mind

Peter C. Johnson - Snowblind (one of my fave records in recent years. major label but home-recorded and weird.)

Jack Traylor & Steelwind - Time To Be Happy

Jukka Tolonen - Aurora Borealis (Part II)

Ripple - Ripplin'

Bernard Lubat & His Mad Ducks - Pappy Thomas

Association P.C. - Frau Theunissen's Kegel (the kind of record that can blow your head off)

Dirty John's Hot Dog Stand - Blue Skies

Salvation - Salvation Jam

Midnight Sun - Living On The Hill

Tape Two

Julie Felix - Clotho's Web

Tom Lucas - Red Letter Day

Chilliwack - I Got You Fixed

Roger Saunders - Darkness

Johnny Hammond - Rock Steady

Pat Martino - Law

Country Funk - When I'm Without You

Ivar Avenue Reunion - Ride Mama Ride

Jerri Jackson - Love Me

Mutzie - Highway (essential!)

Exile - The Bobber/New Ways - Train Train

Danny Vest - Take My Love And Shove It Up Your Heart

Michael Powell - In The Silence

Henry Kaiser - Future Blues/The Jinx Blues

Unit 5 - New Leather Jacket (best song!)

Juicy Groove - Tired Of Bein' Poor

Banchee - Tom's Island

Robert Wood - The High Priestess (Vibrana)

scott seward, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 18:50 (eight years ago) link

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cos it's here https://thescenics.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-summer
I'd seen it reviewed in Viva La Rock'n'roll recently and was intrigued. Not heard of tehm before but this does sound pretty great.

& before that I was listening to a Catherine Ribeiro & Alpes set from 1973

Stevolende, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 21:56 (eight years ago) link

https://lcmoakland.bandcamp.com/album/lcm-lively-mix-match

Milton Parker, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 22:56 (eight years ago) link

'plaint of lapwing' is my favourite album cover in a while

imago, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 23:40 (eight years ago) link


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